Humanism, Secularism, Feminism

Taslima Nasreen

Taslima Nasreen, an award-winning writer, physician, secular humanist and human rights activist, is known for her powerful writings on women oppression and unflinching criticism of religion, despite forced exile and multiple fatwas calling for her death. In India, Bangladesh and abroad, Nasreen’s fiction, nonfiction, poetry and memoir have topped the best-seller’s list.

Taslima Nasreen was born in Bangladesh. She started writing when she was 13. Her writings won the hearts of people across the border and she landed with the prestigious literary award Ananda from India in 1992. Taslima won The Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought from the European Parliament in 1994. She received the Kurt Tucholsky Award from Swedish PEN, the Simone de Beauvoir Award and Human Rights Award from Government of France, Le Prix de l' Edit de Nantes from the city of Nantes, France, Academy prize from the Royal Academy of arts, science and literature from Belgium. She is a Humanist Laureate in The International Academy for Humanism,USA. She won Distinguished Humanist Award from International Humanist and Ethical Union, Free-thought Heroine award from Freedom From Religion foundation, USA., IBKA award, Germany,and Feminist Press Award, USA . She got the UNESCO Madanjeet Singh prize for Promotion of the Tolerance and Non-violence in 2005. She received the Medal of honor of Lyon. She got honorary citizenship from Paris, Nantes, Lyon, Metz, Thionville, Esch etc. Taslima was awarded the Condorcet-Aron Prize at the “Parliament of the French Community of Belgium” in Brussels and Ananda literary award again in 2000.

Bestowed with honorary doctorates from Gent University and UCL in Belgium, and American University of Paris and Paris Diderot University in France, she has addressed gatherings in major venues of the world like the European Parliament, National Assembly of France, Universities of Sorbonne, Oxford, Harvard, Yale, etc. She got fellowships as a research scholar at Harvard and New York Universities. She was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in the USA in 2009.

Taslima has written 35 books in Bengali, which includes poetry, essays, novels and autobiography series. Her works have been translated in thirty different languages. Some of her books are banned in Bangladesh. Because of her thoughts and ideas she has been banned, blacklisted and banished from Bengal, both from Bangladesh and West Bengal part of India. She has been prevented by the authorities from returning to her country since 1994, and to West Bengal since 2007.

Pope Must Go

1.He has international political influence through the Vatican
2.His Vatican works with Islamic States to oppose gay rights
3.He blames atheism for Nazi Germany and lack of virtue
4.His Catholic Church claims that atheists are not fully human
5.He protects the Vatican ahead of child sex abuse victims
6.He blames secularisation for priests raping children
7.His Vatican compares child sex abuse with ordaining women
8.He offered free plenary indulgences to Lourdes pilgrims
9.He is skeptical that there were donkeys in the crib
10.He silences priests who want a more democratic church

With or without Islamic States the Vatican is against gay rights, because the bible is against gay rights. He blames atheism for Nazi Germany because he is ignorant like many people in the world who believe Hitler was an atheist and he killed Jews in the name of atheism. I can well understand why his Catholic Church claims that atheists are not fully human, because God hates atheists and Church based of myths and hypocrisies is threatened by no one but atheists. The biggest crime the Pope committed by protecting Vatican ahead of child sex abuse victims. He blames secularization for priests raping children. He has to, because priests must to be saved. They are authorized to perform the sacred rites of religion especially as a mediatory agent between humans and God. Whatever they do, rape or murder, they must be saved in order to save God’s ass. He silences priests who want a more democratic church, he does it because he knows religion is not compatible with democracy. If religion evolves or if it supports democracy, human rights, and equal rights between men and women, it will not be religion anymore. Religion’s purpose is to keep people in the darkness of ignorance, promote injustices and inequalities. Religion doesn’t evolve, people evolve. We do not have to force it to evolve or pretend that it evolved. We enlightened evolved people need to reject religion to make the world a better place.